Terms/ Vocabulary
The forced separation of different racial groups
What is Segregation?
Rights that protect people's freedom and equality under the law
What is Civil Rights?
MLK made his famous "I have a dream speech" during this event.
What is the March on Washington?
NAACP stands for...
What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People?
The Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education essentially reversed
What is the Plessy v. Ferguson ?
Unfair treatment based on race, gender, or religion
What is Discrimination?
Breaking laws peacefully to protest unfair treatment
What is Civil Disobedience?
A seminal 381-day mass protest against segregated public transportation in Montgomery, Alabama, sparked by Rosa Parks’ arrest.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
An African-American civil rights organization founded in 1957 in Atlanta, Georgia, with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as its first president
What is SCLC?
The Montgomery bus boycott would go on to last for ____ days and in the end, the city of Montgomery relented
What is 381 days?
Bringing people from different racial groups together equally
What is Integration?
Law that ended segregation and banned discrimination in public places
What is Civil Rights Act (1964)?
Protest segregation in interstate transportation
What is the Freedom Rides?
Foundational 1960s civil rights organization formed by student activists to coordinate grassroots, nonviolent direct action against segregation, such as sit-ins and Freedom Rides.
What is SNCC?
Jim Crow tactic was used to discourage African Americans from voting in elections
What is Poll Taxes?
Refusing to give up a seat or place as an act of protest
What is Sit-in?
Law that protected African Americans right to vote
What is Voting Rights Act (1965)?
Nonviolent protests during the 1950s and 1960s where activists, often Black students, sat at segregated "whites-only" lunch counters or public areas, refusing to leave until served or arrested
What is Sit-ins?
The nation's largest, oldest, and most influential civil rights organization, founded in 1909 to fight racial discrimination.
What is the NAACP?
That Black and white children would one day join hands as brothers and sisters
What is Martin Luther King Jr.'s Dream?
Refusing to buy or use goods or services as a form of protest
What is Boycott?
Laws in the Southern U.S. that enforced racial segregation
What is Jim Crow Laws?
A landmark Supreme Court case that unanimously declared state-sponsored segregation in public schools unconstitutional
What is Brown V. Board of Education?
SNCC Stands for...
What is Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee?
Segregation that is made by law
What is De Jure Segregation?